America has astronauts, Russia has cosmonauts, China has taikonauts – what would we call Irish spacemen?

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1. I think the European Space Agency uses astronaut as well, so we’d probably just go with that.

2. Spásairí?

3. Spásairí or Reannátaigh seem good to me, where reann is a nice old word that means both star and planet or any other heavenly body.

   Wrong answers are also welcome.

4. fear spáis ?

5. Paddynauts.

6. Space spuds

7. AstrO’Naut??

8. Didn’t Brendan Grace have a joke about this in a version of the ancient going to the sun at night gag I’m a spacer and the young lad is a trainee he’s only a space cadet

9. Spudnauts

10. Dorchanaut. Dark traveller/sailor.

11. Paddynauts.

12. Ineptus AhSureDontGetMeStarteds, republican space marines.

13. Miles O’Brien Nauts

14. Eire-nauts

15. Realtors

16. Spudniks

17. Eireonauts

18. Lost on the way home from the pub

19. Spacers…

20. Travellers..

21. Whingeonauts

22. Pintonauts

23. Healy-Rae’s

24. Spacelads

25. nauty-nauts

26. Chief O’Brien

27. celticnauts

28. Letsnauts.

29. Taytonauts

30. Absolute Space Cadets

31. Spacers

32. Spudmicks

33. Spudnavs

34. Stardaí?

35. CanIBorrowafivernauts

36. “Your man is a bleedin Space Cadet”

37. Shurelookonauts

38. Readyornauts

39. Spásfear

40. Ástronáuts

41. Leprenauts of course.

42. Lunarticks

43. https://preview.redd.it/9u0nui1a73kb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad70365bc027e34877dad94fc4f7fc410079b5e6

44. Spudmicks